I was wondering what works better, scented or nonscented.  I usually use nonscented and salt injected worms and have had great success.  What is better in your oppinion? 

The Classic Michigander 

Scented plastics are the ticket in more heavily pressured waters because they hide the human scent that gets on your plastics from handling them. Also, scent in a soft plastic is a little like a rattle in a hard bait, because both try to call fish from a distance. I have had success with non-scented plastics, but in my case scented plastics are more productive. Salt also helps hold the bite, or another alternative to salt that fish dont see very often is coffee scent and flavor, like in a Strike King Coffee Tube.

I never use scented plastics I add my own scent mainly Smelly Jelly Bass Feast. I have the most success with that method. Most scented baits aer made by Berkley and I refuse to uses anything made by them. the other is Yum I tried to start a feeding frinzey no luck there either. So I stopped using thier baits also. A Zoom lizard with Smelly Jelly on it will you more smallmouth than Powerbait or Yum combined.

I'm with basbandit on the Smelly Jelly. I use Bass feast and Crawdad. I also salt my baits with sea salt for the times like last weekend when I used Smelly Jelly on my first tube and went without the rest of the day.

I've tried using the scented bait but i've never really had much luck with them. I've had more luck with nonscented bait but using the spray on scents.

I think the salt works better for holding time with a fish you need to set a hook on. The Zoom Super Salty Flukes work great

If the fish are active, I don't think scent makes much of a difference, it's more about your presentation. But when the water is colder and the fish are more lethargic, I believe scent helps give a fish one more reason to bite and hopefully it will!

I don't know which side of the fence to climb on this one. I've caught lots of fish on both, scented and nonscented. Ever take a fresh scented worm right out of the package, fish with it and catch nothing? Then leave it hanging on you rod for a week in a garage full of bad smells, take it back to the lake and have a fish smash it on the first cast! What I do know is the list of pros who endorse Gulp and Yum is off the charts, and I aint seen the first smellyjelly commercial!

I was going to open a new thread, but since this is active instead. What is everybody's opinion of putting used scented soft plastics back in their package after they've been in the water if they are still in decent shape? I can't really determine good or bad if after I've used a scented worm and don't catch anything and throw it back in the back with all the others if I should have done that or not and wanted to get everybody else's opinion. Thanks.

Many companies have special bags that help maintain the juicyness, sent, and whatnot in the baits. Sandwich bags tend to drie up certain baits, at least in my experience.